Spades

does anyone play spade here?

spades is great. only game where the only luck invovled is what hand u get dealt at the start.

Never heard of it. How is it played?

Used to play on Yahoo A LOT. Dingo is spot-on, with one exception; if you're playing pick-up games, getting a good partner is pure luck. I actually stop playing because I got tired of awful people that ff'd 1000 games to pump up their ratings. Great game, though!

This is for Cardssharp. Ever played Hearts? Its sorta like that. You play with 2 two man teams, all the cards get dealt at the start. Spades are trump. The first player in a hand is the "leader" , and whatever suit he leads must be played, high card takes the book. If a player has none of that suit than a spade can be thrown to take the book. BUT if you throw a spade and then later reveal that you DID have a card of that suit, thats a re-nig and you lose 3 books. Usually you play up to a score, like say 500. before each hand you look at your cards and each team bids on the amount of books they expect to take. So say your team bids 6, if you get 60 you get 60, any less you get "set" and get nothing. any amount you take over 6 is an overbook, 10 overbooks and you lose 100 pts. Theres a TON of rule variations so get em straight before you play, cant tell you how many arguements we've got in over spades rules. heres how i like to play

Jokers are the highest, big and little.
deuce of spades is next
then its Ace down
deuce of clubs takes first book
if you have 2 spades or under you can "pass" to your partner
NO TABLE TALK!!

wazimm said:

does anyone play spade here?

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Hi wazimm. If you go to the Card Games General forum (which is where you can discuss any card games not related to poker), you can do a search for Spades related threads. Just click on the "Search this Forum" feature.

To answer your question, yes, I do play Spades. We used to have games all the time, but haven't in a long while. It is a great game of strategy--and if you have a good partner who knows what they're doing, you can clean house!

Sounds interesting. I wonder if anyone I know knows how to play.

Shouldn't this be in the Card Games General fourm?